Worrying won’t help: Modern civilization is going to collapse anyway

There comes a time in many a situation when fretting and fussing are pretty much useless.

Such might well be the case with the challenges facing modern civilization, according to a NEW STUDY sponsored by Nasa’s Goddard Space Flight Center:

Noting that warnings of ‘collapse’ are often seen to be fringe or controversial, the study attempts to make sense of compelling historical data showing that “the process of rise-and-collapse is actually a recurrent cycle found throughout history.” Cases of severe civilisational disruption due to “precipitous collapse – often lasting centuries – have been quite common.”

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There comes a time in many a situation when fretting and fussing are pretty much useless.

Such might well be the case with the challenges facing modern civilization, according to a NEW STUDY sponsored by Nasa’s Goddard Space Flight Center:

Noting that warnings of ‘collapse’ are often seen to be fringe or controversial, the study attempts to make sense of compelling historical data showing that “the process of rise-and-collapse is actually a recurrent cycle found throughout history.” Cases of severe civilisational disruption due to “precipitous collapse – often lasting centuries – have been quite common.”